Warm reception … Bernie Sanders supporters outside a rally at Santa Monica High School in California in May 2016.
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A generation of young readers raised on the struggle for justice imagined in The Hunger Games and Divergent can welcome a new superstar YA author aiming to inspire a revolution in the US’s contemporary dystopia: Senator Bernie Sanders.

The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution is out on 29 August. According to publisher Henry Holt, the former Democratic candidate for the US presidency calls for young people “to fight for a progressive economic, environmental, racial and social justice agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides healthcare for all”.

In a foreword, Sanders points out that, in his campaign for president, he received more votes from young people than Donald Trump’s and Hilary Clinton’s combined, and that “in virtually every state primary and caucus, we won the overwhelming majority of young people – black, white, Latino, Asian American, and Native American”.

“It is my observation that the current generation of young people is the smartest, most idealistic, and least prejudiced generation in the modern history of the United States,” writes Sanders in the guide, an adaptation for young people of his bestselling adult book, Our Revolution. “This is a generation that is prepared to think big and move this country in a very different direction than we have been traveling for years. It is especially prepared to reject the value system espoused by Donald Trump and the rightwing reactionaries in Congress who support his ideas.”

Sanders told Teen Vogue that his book would expose young people to “an unusual political campaign, the excitement of politics and what being a progressive is all about”, adding that “they have a responsibility to participate in our democracy and to help create a government that works for all, rather than just the few”.

The senator is not the first political leader to attempt to reach younger readers. In 2010 Barack Obama published Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, a illustrated guide to “groundbreaking Americans” and ideals that have inspired the nation. Donald Trump has yet to publish his thoughts on politics for the children’s market.